For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.” — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“If Z had only known in his perfectly lovely two rooms in Paris what he'd come to know in his single 6x8 block somewhere,… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
There's an Armed Forces Haggadah and an Alcoholics Anonymous Haggadah and an LGBT Haggadah. Some people make a new Haggadah every year. It's a… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When you see 'editor' on a book, there are many permutations of what that title can mean. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
